Clover Park staff propose $500,000 facilities assessment and 8-classroom early learning expansion

Clover Park School District staff on Tuesday recommended the district commission a professional facility condition assessment and feasibility studies to identify deferred maintenance, life-safety needs and replacement options, and to advance design for an eight-classroom early learning addition at the former Southgate site.

The facility condition assessment estimate is $500,000, with a staff estimate that about $78,000 of that could come from state funds. District staff said the assessment would be conducted by licensed architects and engineers and returned to the board in January or February, and that staff would bring a formal recommendation to the board at the September meeting to authorize the work.

The work matters because the study will feed the district's long-term capital planning and any bond proposals, and because older buildings often trigger costly upgrades. District staff noted that repairing individual end-of-life systems can trigger Americans with Disabilities Act and energy-code upgrades that make renovation less feasible than replacement.

Rick (staff member) told the board that the assessment would collect condition data, life-expectancy estimates and a high-level cost estimate the district…